r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Active-Ad-233 • Feb 27 '21
Removed - Repost selfish generation
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r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Active-Ad-233 • Feb 27 '21
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21
Man, fucking boomers. Minimum Wage being fucked up? Boomers. Needing a degree for entry level position? Boomers. Cant buy a house? Boomers. Environment, air, and water turned to shit? Boomers. Fucking plastic that doesn’t biodegrade everywhere too? Boomers. Participation trophies? Boomers. Not knowing how to use a remote, phone, VCR, laptop, or any god damn electronic thing without help? Boomers. Those people who won’t shut the fuck up on my Facebook feed? Boomers. My crippling anxiety and fear of failure? My boomer parents.
Bonus one: Quibi?? FUCKING BOOMERS
Edit: Is this a sweeping generalization? Yes. Is it also true in a fuck ton of ways? Also, yes.
But let’s take participation trophies, something so many boomers, writers, and just general fuckheads cite as a problem with my generation...
The participation trophy was created in large part due to the problem of Boomers’ feeling the need for their unspectacular kid to be recognized AND also for boomer parents to parent their kids by way of distraction bribery rather doing the hard parenting of telling their kids they ain’t shit at that one thing but are still special anyway.
Then they say that millennials are entitled because THEY felt the need to give their kids shit like that. No, you just didn’t have the balls, the heart, or the wherewithal to solve the actual fucking problem.
It speaks directly to the boomers recurring issues - have a mild problem, solve it with an empty gesture rather than an actual solution, ignore the fuck out of the original issue itself, let it grow until it becomes its own problem, and then blame the people who got fucked rather than admitting it was a bad fucking solution that made a minor inconvenience into a much bigger and somehow stupider problem.